Tom Renney
Tom Renney
Thomas "Tom" Renneyis the president and chief executive officer of Hockey Canada. He was previously an ice hockey Associate Coach with the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings and also served as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers, and Edmonton Oilers...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 March 1955
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We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.
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We really felt the last 20 minutes, and how we chose to approach that, could set the stage for the rest of the series. We wanted to make sure we continued to play hard and honest and not compromise ourselves. We gave our opponents something to think about going into Madison Square Garden. Our objective was to be every bit as intense as we had up to that point and execute the best we could. We tried to send a message.
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It's interesting; at what point in time do we stand up and say, we need this, we've got to fix this, change this? We know what we want, we know what we need. We also know we're not going to give up young people to do anything at all. We also know some of those solutions we don't have here this year are coming.
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It's a little unexpected, obviously. Certainly this has gone to this point better than I expected.
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They take good point shots, create traffic at the net and they're hard people to move. Whoever wins the specialty-team game should win the game tonight.
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A quicker release. Don't look for the second option; take the first option. Often times, we want to set somebody up on the one-timer or get it to an open player, and that falls apart on you. I don't think with Marty, you can kind of point the puck at the net and score. You've just got to get it there and be there.
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Some teams aren't sure they can win. Some teams hope they can win, and some teams know, not just that they can win, but that they're going to win. I'm not sure we're there yet, but we really believe that every night we do give ourselves a real good shot at winning the game. That's part of the evolution. I'd like to get to the point where we know we can win.
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It hurt us from that point of view. We had our practice all ready to go as we always do, but specifically for Pittsburgh.
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Certainly he delivered what he needed to do for us from that point of view. I'd like to have gotten him a little bit more minutes and that'll happen in the future. Just watching his game, he's got good hockey sense. We'll continue to work with him . . . and develop him even further.
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If he can elevate to the point where we have no choice, then it's possible. If he comes in and does an admirable job, then probably not.
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We're sort of playing a hunch as much as anything. He's played New Jersey well, and our last good game of hockey was here against them with Kevin in goal, so I don't think that is unreasonable at all.
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We're going to stay the course and keep working at it. We had a game as we have had a couple of other times. We don't want to make it bigger than what it is.
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We're beginning to see a bit of personality in the other three lines. They can contribute, game in and game out.
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We're a work in progress and we're scrambling and scratching and clawing to kind of be what we were so proud to be earlier. And we're close. We're getting there sort of in fits and starts. But it's a matter of settling down, calming down and believing in everything that we're capable of doing within our system and we'll be fine.